Installing Homebrew, Python, and Pygame on OS X

pygameinstall.md

1. Open the Terminal.
2. Install Homebrew.

• If you run into issues with OS X El Capitan, this will help.
• Enable the Xcode Command Line Tools, necessary for installing/compiling Homebrew: xcode-select –install
• Then install Homebrew itself: ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

3. Install Python 2.7 with brew install python

• Optionally you can also install Python 3 with brew install python3
• Installing either of these with install pip and pip3 respectively, a package manager for Python.

4. Install prerequisites for pygame: brew install sdl sdl_image sdl_mixer sdl_ttf portmidi mercurial
5. Install pygame using pip with pip install hg+http://bitbucket.org/pygame/pygame
6. Install numpy and matplotlib using pip install numpy matplotlib

Then you can run Python scripts from the Terminal with python filename.py.

Why use Homebrew? So when you install things you can easily remove and reinstall them if they break, remove them if they're misbehaving or you no longer need them, or update your packages whenever updates come out (you can do that with brew update then brew upgrade). It also makes installing all kinds of languages and things super easy.

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